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« Previous EntriesManaging Too Many Tweets with TweetDeck
Saturday, February 14th, 2009When someone first starts with Twitter, the web interface is usually enough. They’re following a few people and the single column classic layout is completely adequate. Then they follow a few more and a few more, a snowball effect begins to occur, and they realize something. There are some people they are more passionate about [...]
Playing Along with GarageBand ‘09
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Back in college, I played around with the guitar in a very informal, self-taught way. For some reason, I fell out of the habit of practicing and left it untouched for about 20 years. When GarageBand ‘09 came out with its “Learn to Play” feature, I thought I’d give it a try both with guitar [...]
iPhoto ‘09 – Putting Faces Through Its Paces
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009I spent last night installing iLife ‘09 and trying out the Faces facial recognition feature in the new version of iPhoto. The usability in the application is excellent. I’m a terrible one for reading instructions. My preference is to just jump in and see how much of a device or piece of software I can [...]
Macworld San Francisco 2009 Keynote
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009The big things out of the 2009 Macworld Keynote were an upgrade of iLife, iWork, a new 17″ MacBook Pro, and new flexibility in iTunes pricing.
In iPhoto, the new “Faces” feature will recognize a face when you link it with a name and will associate that name to the same face in any future images, [...]